The initial underline film from young writer/director Sean Durkin is positively a stylistically positive entrance — mysterious, moody, unbearably moving in tools — though all the character can't hide the actuality that there isn't many substance.

By Alonso Duralde LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – While it lacks the bloody monsters of "The Thing" and the gotcha scares of "Paranormal Activity 3," "Martha Marcy May Marlene" may be the many terrifying film opening in theaters this month.

With a single parsimonious support after an additional — faces tighten up and total ghastly underwater, events noticed by windows and doorways — Martha Marcy May Marlene conveys the boundary of what you can know.

by Katie Calautti There's a impulse in Martha Marcy May Marlene where Martha (newcomer Elizabeth Olsen) asks her sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson), “Do you ever have that feeling where you can't discuss it if something's a mental recall or if it's something you dreamed?

In this shave from the Envelope Screening Series Q&A, the writer-director of "Martha Marcy May Marlene," Sean Durkin, talks about how he crafted the film's chronicle of a young woman's arising in to a farming cult.